354 Agreeable Conclusioti of 



cabin roof over the heads of their families a 

 source of the greatest affliction and misery, 

 from one end of Ireland to the other. 



On having reference to so extensive a field, 

 it would not be less possible, than wanting in 

 gratitude, were I to omit, on this occasion, to 

 state, that we found a general frankness and 

 hospitality to prevail every where ; and that it 

 is a most unjust censure to charge the Irish, 

 with a prejudice against the English. The 

 higher ranks are too enlightened and generous 

 a people, to attribute any of their inconveni- 

 ences from political arrangements, to the in- 

 dividuals of the mother country. The gener- 

 ality of the lower orders entertain no idea on 

 the subject ; it must consequently be greatly 

 the fault of the English visitor or traveller, and 

 for which he would be undeserving any com- 

 miseration, if he met with any thing in Ireland 

 which should detract from the laws of hospi- 

 tality. 



As far as relates to myself, I have seldom 

 passed such a portion of my time so agreeably, 

 or indeed so much to my gratification ; and it 

 is not among the least of the satisfactions I 

 have derived, that my visit to Ireland has 



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